Man, if I had even a tiny % of the dollars I saw companies waste on things like this when I rolled in as a consultant, I'd be retired on my personal island. Some of my favorites were when they would demand I fly to some office at the last minute, only to discover that the people I needed to work with were located in some other part of the country, where I would basically twiddle my thumbs for weeks waiting for some access to something or some piece of information, for the supposedly most high profile thing in the entire company that was supposedly costing them huge $$ for every minute we sat around.

Still though, my absolute favorite was the quasi-government project requiring very costly and involved background checks for us to even be on the project, in which all of us would be working from home and where we had to work through two layers of people in order to do anything. As in, I had to talk to someone, who could talk to someone, who theoretically were blessed enough to put their hands on the keyboard, somewhere. It was 6 months of the most ridiculous meetings I've ever experienced, and then they were mad that we hadn't done anything. :-(